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Italian food shopping, restaurants and home cooking in New York's outer boroughs are not well-known among the several tourists visiting the Big Apple every year. Let's take a closer look at some of the must-know places for Italian specialties in New York City.

While New York City’s food and wine lovers were being introduced to the products of Le Marche region during the past weekend with presentations and free tastings held at Little Italy’s DiPalo and Flatiron’s Eataly, a handful of lucky individuals partook in Aperitivo with the Winemaker: Wines of Le Marche offered by La Scuola di Eataly on Sunday, January 15th, 2012.

Franciacorta, Italy's answer to French Champagne hails from a small land in Lombardy. Oscar Farinetti - Eataly's founder - toasted with the press to Prime Minister Mario Monti’s sake, raising a cup of the finest ‘bubbles’, or ‘bollicine’, as Italians call them.

Lavazza regularly brings the Top Italian Chefs and long-time partners to La Scuola di Eataly to celebrate the traditions, the secrets and the real taste of the food Made in Italy. The Michelin Awarded Chefs cook, teach and present the final mise en place to the guests of La Scuola. As educators, they blend their skills and knowledge with the right ingredients and actual techniques to convey the quintessential experience of the finest cuisine.

New York City’s favorite Italian marketplace is hosting a one of a kind photographic show: “La Dolce Vita, 1950-1960. Stars and Celebrities in the Italian Fifties” curated by Marco Panella. Hanging from bars suspended from the ceiling are wonderful black and white images of stars at play and work in Italy during this glamorous decade.

Eight of Italy’s most historic and popular distilleries will host tastings, classes and events so spirits’ enthusiasts can see for themselves the quality liqueurs that make Italy’s cocktail culture so diverse and cutting-edge